“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make ...” — Michael Jordan Quote

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”

“When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.”

“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.”

“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.”

“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.”

“Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.”

“'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.”

“If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.”

“A lot of people have thrown that in my face - like 'Oh, I've never seen anything happen so quickly. She needs to be studied,' or 'She's a plant.' I just let people believe whatever they want to believe, to be honest. I don't really mind all the rumors. At first I did, but now I'm at a point where I understand that just comes with this lifestyle.”

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

“If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.”